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 On March 14th, I began posting daily updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  This blog post compiles the period of September 13th through September 19th. see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more September 13 | September 14 | September 15 | September 16 | September 17 | September 18 | September 19 SEPTEMBER 13 Is it fair to start speculating whether COVID-19 is waning in the USA? New cases have fallen for 7 straight weeks. That's despite huge surges on college campuses as kids are going back to school, and also despite alleged "super-spreader events" such as the bike rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. Some of the decline may be due to more limited testing, but not all of it. Deaths have fallen 4 straight weeks, and by 30% during that period. While...

On March 14th, I began posting daily updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  This blog post compiles the period of September 6th through September 12th.  see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more September 6 | September 7 | September 8 | September 9 | September 10 | September 11 | September 12 SEPTEMBER 6 "All the News that's Fit to Confuse" Consider: On June 25th, the Washington post  reported  that CDC director Robert Redfield, in a conference call with reporters, said that the number of people in the USA likely to have been infected with COVID-19 was likely 10 times as high as the 2.4 million cases that had been confirmed at the time (the USA is now closing in on 6.5 total confirmed cases). One of the common readings of those remarks...

This morning Bruce Springsteen announced his latest album, "Letter to You," along with the release of the album's first single, the title track of the album. In a message to twitter this evening, Springsteen wrote , “I love the emotional nature of Letter To You... We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.” The album, recorded with the E Street Band primarily in late 2019 at Bruce's home in New Jersey, contains 3 tracks that Bruce originally wrote in the 1970's, along with "recently written" songs, per the press release. The 3 older tracks, well known the Springsteen collectors but virtually unknown otherwise, include "If I Was the Priest," a song that was a centerpiece of Springsteen's audition for John Hammond at Columbia Records in 1972. For a TV special on John Hammond in the mid-1980s, Hammond and Springsteen recorded a conversation. Hammond said, ...

On March 14th, I began posting daily updates to my facebook page, regarding the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have used data from worldometer as a primary source for daily and cumulative data, with frequent supplementation from various national and local sites.  This blog post compiles the period of August 30th through September 5th.  see  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/  for more August 30 | August 31 | September 1 | September 2 | September 3 | September 4 | September 5 AUGUST 30 There were 220,670 new cases worldwide today, including 33,981 in the USA. There were 4,182 deaths worldwide today, including 369 in the USA. Cumulatively, there have now been 25.38 million cases and 850,163 deaths worldwide. In the USA, there have been 6.17 million cases and 187,224 deaths. India reported 79,457 new cases today; that's a new record for any country on a single day, eclipsing the USA record set on July 24th. It was the 5th consecutive day in...